What could possibly go wrong?
In Israel in 2021, 29 mosques were exposed as weapons storage sites.
In Tunisia in 2015, police found weapons in 40 mosques. Bombs and rocket-propelled grenades were found in mosques in a “Palestinian” “refugee” camp.
In mosques in Austria, children are taught not to take non-Muslims as friends (in accord with Qur’an 3:28 and 5:51).
In Germany, mosquegoers tried to stop police from arresting a knifeman who had fled into the mosque.
In Pakistan, jihadis openly fundraise in mosques.
Also in mosques in Pakistan, girls were taught how to behead people.
A mosque in Sweden has been dubbed an “espionage nest” for the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps says that mosques in the U.S. are used to plot jihad attacks.
In the UK, a mosque trustee was convicted of encouraging terrorism. In France, a mosque was accused of incitement against Jews, women, and homosexuals.
But in Japan it will be different, right?
“Japan home to a growing Muslim presence as it embraces change,” Asahi Shimbun, May 25, 2023:
Japan is not only a land of temples and shrines … but also mosques. The latter is due to a sharp rise in marriages between Muslims and Japanese citizens and Japanese converts over two decades that has seen a seven-fold increase in the number of mosques.
Hirofumi Tanada, professor emeritus of sociology at Waseda University in Tokyo, reckons that Japan is now home to more than 200,000 Muslims.
A study by Tanada and his colleagues showed there were 113 mosques across Japan in March 2021, up from only 15 in 1999.
The figure is based on government statistics, percentages of Muslims in the population by country and membership figures of the Association for Islamic Studies in Japan.
Their study showed that around 230,000 Muslims called Japan home as of the end of 2020….
“We Japanese were previously unfamiliar with Muslims,” said Hirofumi Okai, an associate professor of sociology at Kyoto Sangyo University who studies Islamic culture. “Now that they are our neighbors, we need to think about how to live with them in this diversifying society.”